Appendix:Legendary and Mythical Pokémon

Legendary Pokémon and Mythical Pokémon are Pokémon that are exceptionally rare and often very powerful, generally featured prominently in the legends and myths of the Pokémon world.

Characteristics
Most Legendary and Mythical Pokémon are renowned for their stats and performance in battles. Most of these Pokémon can only be captured once, like Jirachi as an example. The exception to this is a Pokémon obtained from events, such as the Manaphy Egg. Hence, in order to obtain multiples of them, the player has to trade for one.

Many of these Pokémon are worshipped as gods by particular groups of people in the Pokémon world, due to the fact that these particular Pokémon have unique powers and representation of different items; an example would be Groudon, which represents lithosphere, and expanded the land.

In the Pokédex for each generation portion, Mythical Pokémon typically appear at the very end, and Legendary Pokémon immediately before them. An exception to this is Victini.

List of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon
Out of the 721 Pokémon species, 38 are Legendary Pokémon, 17 are Mythical Pokémon. * Phione's status as a Mythical Pokémon is disputed, with several pieces of evidence and even official statements often contradicting each other.

** Arceus can change its type to match the Plate it is holding. For example, giving Arceus Flame Plate will transform it into Fire-type.

For Primal Reversion / Mega Evolution forms of certain Pokémon, view Mega Evolution.